The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

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Mrs. GARFIELD is receiving very distinguished
! attention in England.
| MANUAL training has been introduced in the
high-school at st. Paul. Mimi, and at a recent
! examination thirty six pupils gave an exhibition
| OF saving boards and driving nails.
| Mrs. POTTER and Mrs Langtry each got, &C
cording to q leading managers estimate, exactly
81. 900 worth of advertising out of last Sunday s
| New York papers without paying cent.
PHILADELPHIA Press: Miss Rose Elizabeth
| Cleveland's latest literary essay is entitled
Beauty, the Reformer." It probably has some
reference to Mrs. Cleveland's laudable effort to
correct her husbands mode of life.
AT one of Jenny Lind's concerts Daniel Web
ster arose and asked her to sing the '.Star-
spaneled Banner" She replied that she would
If he would join in the chorus. She sang it, the
entire audience joining in, and Webster remain
ing standing
DULUTH Paragrapher: The Minneapolis Trib-
une editorial Mrs Cleveland did its work in
a great and abundant sort of way. Not only
were the people of the whole country painfully
surprised, but here in the Northwest even the
corn was shocked.
To determine whether her two pet canaries
possessed the sense of color Chicago lady
placed before them two bathing cups, one of or
binary white ware. the other of colored glass.
After moments hesitation the birds plunged
into the colored cup and have since refused to
battle in any other.
NJ. DANIEL WILSON. son-in-law of President
Grevy. is said to be utterly Indifferent to liter
ature and The drama He one day recently re-
Sands and for them only because of their land
scapes. Then he added that George Sand
must now be very DID,"
1T is said that the late Dinan Mulock Craik did
not dread death; nor, perhaps, was it wholly
unexpected to herself; but when il came her
sfr aC1 IN urIYn fha oohr
riage of her adopted daughter caused her to
murmur "Oh If I could live four weeks longer!
But" she added, mo matter matter"
BEATRICE GEoReINA DoRRELL, laundress,
That is the name and that the occupation which
lately appeared together in a London police
court. Beatrice Georsina had been stealing
something = naturally. After hearing that
name for eighteen years she probably wanted to
go somewhere where she would be called by
number, and 50 took the straight road to prison
A MAN named George Washington was ar
rested in Buffalo day or two ago for malicious
mischief in choppine the racks from some tan
bark railroad track with an AK His
daughter, Martha Washington. testified in his
favor, but he was convicted. The judge said:
II hate to convict man Of the illustrious name
Of George Washington, who has daughter
Martha, but thank God that you used an ak in
stead of a hatchet. Pay fine of S."
SEVERAL years ago watermelons were almost
unknown in California. An old Missourian, who
owned forty acres near Lodi, and who had raised
the fruit in old Missouri, planted his whole lot
to MELONS. His neiehbors laughed at the idea
Of melons growing without rain, and he was
called the boss crank of the country. But the
vines thrived and bore melous-40, 900 of them
and he cleared SIC, 900 from his forty acres;
and now Lodi is the great melon district of the
Pacific slope
COLONEL RICE Governor Hills private secre-
tary, who has been paying visit to the White
House, is second Lamont. far as political
ability is concerned. His smooth, boyish face
gives little indication of his mature mental pow
whose gravest lies in leading germans.
But under his suave and polished exterior lies
far seeing, we'll balanced and powerful charac-
ter. To his natural gifts he has added the orna-
ments which come from culture and travel.
NORTH JoKAL. the Hungarian novelist, has
written letter to his friends in which he de-
clines with thanks the celebration which they
were arranging for him this month in honor of
tho fftieth anniversary Of his debut as poet.
He informs them that fifty years ago he was a
lad of twelve busy studying Latin, and that if
he had shown any disposition at that time to
write poetry his teacher would have soon
KIN ocked that nonsense out OF him. The proper
date for the intended celebration he suggests, is
1892.
SAMUEL B. HOLDEN. of Craigh, No., has had
something of Rip Van Wrinkle experience.
Eight years ago he came home one day. COM
planning of an intense pain in his head. In
twenty-four hours he was dwelling idiot A
few days ago he came suddenly out of this state
of idiocy, and took up his life's story where he
ha left it off eight years before. All the ply
s icans of his neigh borhood are puzzled this
extraordinary case, which is being discussed
with all seriousness and perfect good faith by
the newspapers OF Missouri.
THE Rev. H. E. Foss. of Bath. Me-, who is on
a preaching crusade against tobacco, has col
lected some interesting statistics. He says that
in Bath alone 500, 600 is spent each year for to-
bacco: that of seventy one boys in one grammar
school forty had used tobacco that in a smaller
schoo. fifteen of the thirty-three boys were sim
arly depravec that among 230 other grammar
school boys were 119 who had learned TO chew
or smoke or both. and that in one primary class
of twenty four. eight little fellows just out OF
dresses, unlike little Robert Reed as
possible, and used the filthy weed.
EMANUEL GONZALES. the French writer whose
death has just been announced, owed his start
in life to Emile de Girardin. Having the young
man introduced him, the famous editor ex-
the moment he heard the name II
would like you to write series Of Spanish
sketches for La Presse.'' But" said Gonzales.
ing of Spain, and have never been there" mo
matterl Articles signed Gonzales sure to
be read" So Gonzales ''read up" on Spain and
soon wrote some Spanish stories, which were
highly praised for their s'local color"
THERE is one London mandatory at which
the making of valentines goes all the year.
1t is the headquarters for the production of those
com bin atoms of laced and silvered paper,
springs notices and little punches of colored
flowers, and much of the work has to be done by
hand. The laced paper, for instance. is laid
face downward and filed away by hand, and the
STAN ped paper is but cheap German imitation.
The valentines are put together by women, the
most expert of whom can make three dozen
day. One curious thing about their work is
that they substitute the third finger of the
right hand for muclage brush, which, they
say, is useless to them.
To see Mr.. Gladstone walk mile on the turf
IS said to be rich treat Even in the streets of
London he is about the most graceful and MIN
Die pedestrian you would meet in day. He
strides with the sprinRy freedom of an athlete,
and has all the eloquent grace of a dancing mas
.er without trace of tho dandyism. More
likely than not you will see him swinging his old
lat in one hand. while widening his collar with